--- title: Isaiah 45:7 (JPS 1917) — I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil… · tree and pragmatics description: I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things. Who acts: I, LORD. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, LORD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:ISA:1008 # text = I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 create create VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 create create VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 doeth do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | present | I | the light | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme | | 2 | **create** | present | I *not said here* | darkness | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darkness=Result | | 3 | **make** | present | I | peace | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | | 4 | **create** | present | I *not said here* | evil | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Result | | 5 | **is a** | present | I | the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present | the LORD | all things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} יוֹצֵ֥ר אוֹר֙ וּבוֹרֵ֣א חֹ֔שֶׁךְ עֹשֶׂ֥ה שָׁל֖וֹם וּב֣וֹרֵא רָ֑ע אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה עֹשֶׂ֥ה כָל־אֵֽלֶּה׃ס [Isaiah 45:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:1008` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Isaiah 45:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1007/) - next →: [Isaiah 45:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1009/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 45:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.7/)